CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE POULTRY RUN. 



EVEN the hen is intensively cultivated these 

 days, and that makes room for her and 

 her chicks on the small patch. It is 

 perfectly amazing how little the ordinary farmer 

 knows about poultry, although he has raised 

 some, more or less, from time immemorial. 

 The modern farmer is too wise to be caught 

 with the extravagant stories found in some poul- 

 try papers, of the profits to be made from a 

 hennery, though at the same time he is not 

 wise enough to believe that with careful atten- 

 tion and improved methods, the hennery can 

 be made to pay well. 



It is for the benefit of the farmer who is neither 

 too wise nor too ignorant to be taught, as weU 

 as for the villager and the intensive farmer, that 

 this chapter is written.* 



♦Note. — This chapter has been specially revised by Milo M. 

 Hastings, the author of a new and thorough work, "The Dollar 

 Hen." Mr. Hastings was formerly the commercial poultry expert 

 of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



It will be impossible in the brief space available to go into detail 

 concerning all the up-to-date methods of poultry production. I can 

 only call attention to the system by which the industry is being 

 modernized and by which, also, it may be made to yield handsome 

 profits to the intelligent and aggressive poultryman. 



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